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Awesome Go

A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-python.

Contributing

Please take a quick gander at the contribution guidelines first. Thanks to all contributors; you rock!

Audio/Music

Libraries for manipulating audio.

flac - A native Go FLAC decoder.
go-sox - libsox bindings for go.
PortAudio - Go bindings for the PortAudio audio I/O library.
portmidi - Go bindings for PortMidi.
vorbis - A "native" Go Vorbis decoder (uses CGO, but has no dependencies).

Authentication & OAuth

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

Go-AWS-Auth - AWS (Amazon Web Services) request signing library.
go.auth - Authentication API for Go web applications.
httpauth - HTTP Authentication middleware.
jwt-go - Golang implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
oauth2 - Successor of goauth2. Generic OAuth 2.0 package that comes with JWT, Google APIs, Compute Engine and App Engine support.
osin - Golang OAuth2 server library.

CUI

Libraries for building CUI Applications

color Versatile package for colored terminal output.
go-colortext - Go library for color output in terminals.
termbox-go - Termbox is a library for creating cross-platform text-based interfaces.

Database

Databases implemented in Go.

bolt - A low-level key/value database for Go.
diskv - A home-grown disk-backed key-value store.
go-cache - An in-memory key:value store/cache (similar to Memcached) library for Go, suitable for single-machine applications.
goleveldb - An implementation of the LevelDB key/value database in the Go.
groupcache - Groupcache is a caching and cache-filling library, intended as a replacement for memcached in many cases.
influxdb - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
ledisdb - Ledisdb is a high performance NoSQL like Redis based on LevelDB.
skydb.io - Sky is an open source database used for flexible, high performance analysis of behavioral data.
tiedot - Your NoSQL database powered by Golang.

Database Drivers

Libraries for connecting and operating databases. (see Testing for mock drivers)

Relational Databases
- go-pgsql - A PostgreSQL client package for the Go Programming Language.
- go-sql-driver/mysql - MySQL driver for Go.
- go-sqlite3 - SQLite3 driver for go that using database/sql.
- pq - Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql.
NoSQL Databases
- cayley - A graph database with support for multiple backends.
- gorethink - Go language driver for RethinkDB
- gomemcache - memcache client library for the Go programming language.
- mgo - MongoDB driver for the Go language that implements a rich and well tested selection of features under a very simple API following standard Go idioms.
- neo4j - Neo4j Rest API Bindings for Golang
- Neo4j-GO - Neo4j REST Client in golang.
- redigo - Redigo is a Go client for the Redis database.
- redis - A simple, powerful Redis client for Go.

Date & Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

now - Now is a time toolkit for golang.

Email

Libraries that implement email creation and sending

email - A robust and flexible email library for Go.
Go-MailHog - Catches mail and serves it through a dream. Inspired by MailCatcher, easier to install.
gomail - Gomail provides a very simple API to send emails. It supports attachments, multipart emails and encoding of non-ASCII characters.

Embeddable Scripting Languages

Embedding other languages inside your go code

agora - Dynamically typed, embeddable programming language in Go
anko - Scriptable interpreter written in Go
gisp - Simple LISP in Go
golua - Go bindings for Lua C API
go-python - naive go bindings to the CPython C-API
otto - A JavaScript interpreter written in Go
v8-go - V8 JavaScript engine bindings for Go

Forms

Libraries for working with forms.

binding - Binds form and JSON data from net/http Request to struct.
nosurf - A CSRF protection middleware for Go.

Game Development

Awesome game development libraries.

GarageEngine - 2d game engine written in Go working on OpenGL.
glop - Glop (Game Library Of Power) is a fairly simple cross-platform game library.
go3d - A performance oriented 2D/3D math package for Go
go-astar - Go implementation of the A* path finding algorithm

Generation & Generics

Tools to enhance the language with features like generics via code generation

gen - Code generation tool for ‘generics’-like functionality.
go-linq - .NET LINQ-like query methods for Go.
pkgreflect - A Go preprocessor for package scoped reflection.

GUI

Libraries for building GUI Applications

go-gtk - Go bindings for GTK
gotk3 - Go bindings for GTK3.
go-qml - QML support for the Go language
ui - Platform-native GUI library for Go.

Images

Libraries for manipulating images.

go-cairo - Go binding for the cairo graphics library.
go-nude - Nudity detection with Go.
go-opencv - Go bindings for OpenCV.
go-webcolors - Port of webcolors library from Python to Go.
img - A selection of image manipulation tools.
imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API.
imaging - Simple Go image processing package.
resize - Image resizing for the Go with common interpolation methods.
rez - Image resizing, functionality similar to resize
svgo - Go Language Library for SVG generation.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files.

glog - Leveled execution logs for Go.
go-log - Log lib supports level and multi handlers.
logrus - Structured, pluggable logging for Go.
seelog - logging functionality with flexible dispatching, filtering, and formatting.
stdlog - Stdlog is an object-oriented library providing leveled logging. It is very useful for cron jobs.

Machine Learning

Libraries for Machine Learning.

bayesian - Naive Bayesian Classification for Golang.
CloudForest - Fast, flexible, multi-threaded ensembles of decision trees for machine learning in pure Go.
go-fann - Go bindings for Fast Artificial Neural Networks(FANN) library.
go-galib - Genetic Algorithms library written in Go / golang
golinear - liblinear bindings for Go
GoLearn - General Machine Learning library for Go.
go-pr - Pattern recognition package in Go lang.
libsvm - libsvm golang version derived work based on LIBSVM 3.14.
mlgo - This project aims to provide minimalistic machine learning algorithms in Go.
neural-go - A multilayer perceptron network implemented in Go, with training via backpropagation.
probab - Probability distribution functions. Bayesian inference. Written in pure Go.
shield - Bayesian text classifier with flexible tokenizers and storage backends for Go

Messaging

Libraries that implement messaging systems

dbus - Native Go bindings for D-Bus.
go-nsq - the official Go package for NSQ
gopush-cluster - gopush-cluster is a go push server cluster.
NATS - A lightweight and highly performant publish-subscribe and distributed queueing messaging system.
Uniqush-Push - A redis backed unified push service for server-side notifications to mobile devices.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with human languages.

go-eco - Similarity, dissimilarity and distance matrices; diversity, equitability and inequality measures; species richness estimators; coenocline models.
golibstemmer - Go bindings for the snowball libstemmer library including porter 2
go-nlp - Utilities for working with discrete probability distributions and other tools useful for doing NLP work.
go-porterstemmer - A native Go clean room implementation of the Porter Stemming algorithm.
go-stem - Implementation of the porter stemming algorithm.
gounidecode - Unicode transliterator (also known as unidecode) for Go
icu - Cgo binding for icu4c C library detection and conversion functions. Guaranteed compatibility with version 50.1.
libtextcat - Cgo binding for libtextcat C library. Guaranteed compatibility with version 2.2.
MMSEGO - This is a GO implementation of MMSEG which a Chinese word splitting algorithm.
paicehusk - Golang implementation of the Paice/Husk Stemming Algorithm
porter - This is a fairly straighforward port of Martin Porter's C implementation of the Porter stemming algorithm.
snowball - Snowball stemmer port (cgo wrapper) for Go. Provides word stem extraction functionality Snowball native.
stemmer - Stemmer packages for Go programming language. Includes English and German stemmers.
textcat - A Go package for n-gram based text categorization, with support for utf-8 and raw text

OpenGL

Libraries for using OpenGL in Go.

gl - Go bindings for OpenGL. Requires an external dependency GLEW.
glfw3 - Go bindings for GLFW 3.
glow - Go binding generator and bindings for OpenGL.
mathgl - Pure Go math package specialized for 3D math, with inspiration from GLM.

ORM

Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques.

BeeDB - go ORM,support database/sql interface，pq/mysql/sqlite.
GORM - The fantastic ORM library for Golang, aims to be developer friendly.
gorp - Go Relational Persistence, ORM-ish library for Go.
hood - Database agnostic ORM for Go.
QBS - Stands for Query By Struct. A Go ORM.
upper.io/db - Single interface for interacting with different data sources through the use of adapters that wrap mature database drivers.
Xorm - Simple and powerful ORM for Go.

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

godep - dependency tool for go, godep helps build packages reproducibly by fixing their dependencies.
gom - Go Manager - bundle for go.
goop - A simple dependency manager for Go (golang), inspired by Bundler.
gpm - Barebones dependency manager for Go.

Science and Data Analysis

Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.

blas - Implementation of BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms)
geom - 2D geometry for golang
gocomplex - A complex number library for the Go programming language.
go-fn - Mathematical functions written in Go language, that are not covered by math pkg
gofrac - A (goinstallable) fractions library for go with support for basic arithmetic.
go-gt - Graph theory algorithms written in "Go" language
go.matrix - linear algebra for go
gostat - A statistics library for the go language
mudlark-go - A collection of packages providing (hopefully) useful code for use in software using Google's Go programming language.
plotinum - Plotinum provides an API for building and drawing plots in Go.
streamtools - general purpose, graphical tool for dealing with streams of data.
vectormath - Vectormath for Go, an adaptation of the scalar C functions from Sony's Vector Math library, as found in the Bullet-2.79 source code.

Template Engines

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

amber - Amber is an elegant templating engine for Go Programming Language It is inspired from HAML and Jade.
gold - Gold is a template engine for Go. This simplifies HTML coding in Go web application development. This is influenced by Slim and Jade.
kasia.go - Templating system for HTML and other text documents - go implementation.
mustache - A Go implementation of the Mustache template language.
pongo2 - A Django-like template-engine for Go.
Razor - Razor view engine for Golang.
Soy - Closure templates (aka Soy templates) for Go, following the official spec

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

Testing Frameworks
- assert - Asserts to Go testing
- ginkgo - BDD Testing Framework for Go
- gocheck - A more advanced testing framework alternative to gotest.
- GoConvey - BDD-style framework with web UI and live reload
- GoSpec - BDD-style testing framework for the Go programming language.
- gospecify - This provides a BDD syntax for testing your Go code. It should be familiar to anybody who has used libraries such as rspec.
- Hamcrest - fluent framework for declarative Matcher objects that, when applied to input values, produce self-describing results.
- restit - A Go micro framework to help writing RESTful API integration test.
- Testify - A sacred extension to the standard go testing package.
Mock
- counterfeiter - Tool for generating self-contained mock objects
- gomock - Mocking framework for the Go programming language.
- mockhttp.go - Mock object for Go http.ResponseWriter
- go-sqlmock - Mock SQL driver for testing database transactions

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating texts.

Specific Formats
- blackfriday - Markdown processor in Go
  - github_flavored_markdown - GitHub Flavored Markdown renderer in Go.
- bluemonday - HTML Sanitizer
- go-humanize - Formatters for time, numbers, and memory size to human readable format.
- go-pkg-rss - This package reads RSS and Atom feeds and provides a caching mechanism that adheres to the feed specs.
- go-pkg-xmlx - Extension to the standard Go XML package. Maintains a node tree that allows forward/backwards browsing and exposes some simple single/multi-node search functions.
- GoQuery - GoQuery brings a syntax and a set of features similar to jQuery to the Go language.
- slug - URL-friendly slugify with multiple languages support.
- toml - TOML configuration format (encoder/decoder with reflection).
- yaml - Implements a YAML 1.2 parser in Go.
Utility

Third-party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party APIs.

facebook - Go Library that supports the Facebook Graph API
github - Go library for accessing the GitHub API.
hipchat - This project implements a golang client library for the Hipchat API.
hipchat (xmpp) - A golang package to communicate with HipChat over XMPP.

Utilities

General utilities and tools to make your life easier.

cli - A small package for building command line apps in Go.
coop - Cheat sheet for some of the common concurrent flows in Go.
gopencils - Small and simple package to easily consume REST APIs.
go-dry - DRY (don't repeat yourself) package for Go.
mp - A simple cli email parser. It currently takes stdin and outputs JSON.

Video

Libraries for manipulating video.

aac/h264 - Golang aac/h264 encoder and decoder.
gmf - Go bindings for FFmpeg av* libraries.
gst - Go bindings for GStreamer.

Web Frameworks

Full stack web frameworks.

Beego - beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Go programming language.
Gin - Gin is a web framework written in Go! It features a martini-like API with much better performance, up to 40 times faster. If you need performance and good productivity.
gocraft/web - A mux and middleware package in Go.
Goji - Goji is a minimalistic web framework for Golang that's high in antioxidants.
Gorilla - Gorilla is a web toolkit for the Go programming language.
go-rest - A small and evil REST framework for Go
httprouter - A high performance router. Use this and the standard http handlers to form a very high performance web framework.
mango - Mango is a modular web-application framework for Go, inspired by Rack, and PEP333.
Martini - Martini is a powerful package for quickly writing modular web applications/services in Golang.
pat - Sinatra style pattern muxer for Go’s net/http library, by the author of Sinatra.
Revel - A high-productivity web framework for the Go language.
tigertonic - A Go framework for building JSON web services inspired by Dropwizard
traffic - Sinatra inspired regexp/pattern mux and web framework for Go.
web.go - A simple framework to write webapps in Go.

Middlewares

Libraries for creating HTTP middlewares.

alice - Painless middleware chaining for Go.
muxchain - Lightweight middleware for net/http.
negroni - Idiomatic HTTP Middleware for Golang.
render - Go package for easily rendering JSON, XML, and HTML template responses.

Tools

Go software and plugins.

Code Analysis

doc - Go documentation tool that produces an alternative doc format.
goast-viewer - Web based Golang AST visualizer.
goimports - Tool to fix (add, remove) your Go imports automatically.
GoLint - Golint is a linter for Go source code.
validate - Automatically validates struct fields with tags.

Editor Plugins

go-lang-idea-plugin Go plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
gocode - An autocompletion daemon for the Go programming language
GoSublime - A Golang plugin collection for the text editor SublimeText 2 providing code completion and other IDE-like features.
velour - An IRC client for the acme editor.
vim-compiler-go - A Vim plugin to highlight syntax errors on save.
vim-go - Go development plugin for Vim.
Watch - Runs a command in an acme win on file changes.

Software Packages

Software written in Go.

DevOps Tools

aptly - aptly is a Debian repository management tool
Boom - Boom is a tiny program that sends some load to a web application.
gaudi - Gaudi automates the setup of isolated and decoupled dev environments.
gobrew - gobrew lets you easily switch between multiple versions of go.
godbg - Web-based gdb front-end application.
Gogs - A Self Hosted Git Service in the Go Programming Language.
go-selfupdate - Enable your Go applications to self update.
gox - A dead simple, no frills Go cross compile tool.
goxc - build tool for Go, with a focus on cross-compiling and packaging.
GVM - GVM provides an interface to manage Go versions.
hk - Heroku command-line interface in Go.
Mora - REST server for accessing MongoDB documents and meta data.

Other Software

Circuit - Circuit is a programmable platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and/or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), for management, discovery, synchronization and orchestration of services and hosts comprising cloud applications.
confd - Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul.
Docker - An open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins.
etcd - A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery.
fleet - A Distributed init System.
juju - Configure, deploy, manage and monitor Openstack infrastructure.
nsq - A realtime distributed messaging platform
Postman - Command-line utility for batch-sending email.
syncthing - An open, decentralized file synchronization tool and protocol.
tsuru - An extensible and open source Platform as a Service software.

Resources

Where to discover new Go libraries.

Benchmarks

autobench - Framework to compare the performance between different Go versions.
go-http-routing-benchmark - Go HTTP request router benchmark and comparison.
go_serialization_benchmarks - Benchmarks of Go serialization methods.
go-type-assertion-benchmark - Naive performance test of two ways to do type assertion in Go.
kvbench - Key/Value database benchmark.
speedtest-resize - Compare various Image resize algorithms for the Go language.

E-Books

Twitter

Websites

awesome-awesomeness - List of other amazingly awesome lists.
Flipboard - Go Magazine - A collection of Go articles and tutorials.
godoc.org - Documentation for open source Go packages.
golang-nuts - Go mailing list
Go Projects - List of projects on the Go community wiki
r/Golang - News about Go.
Trending Go repositories on GitHub today - Good place to find new Go libraries.
go generate - A proposed code generation syntax from Rob Pike.

Tutorials

A Tour of Go - Interactive tour of Go
Go By Example - A hands-on introduction to Go using annotated example programs
Working with Go - An intro to go for experienced programmers